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[91130nut]

Portsmouth was also granted city status in 1926.

 

[D6130]

Portsmouth has a much smaller namesake settlement in Calderdale, West Yorkshire (formerly Lancashire), which is situated in the Cliviger Gorge, a spectacularly narrow glacial overflow channel in the South Pennines, named after the next settlement just over the border in Lancashire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Like Cliviger, Goldshaw Booth in Lancashire is a parish, not a village, but both of these two areas were once under the administration of the Hundred of Blackburn.

 

[Tetragon213]

Goldshaw Booth falls within the Blackburn (Lancs) Postcode area

 

[Calthrop]

Peel, Isle of Man; also has as a namesake, the surname (real, or pseudonymous) of a sometime commentator / expert / presenter active in the field of popular music -- the bods concerned being Tony, and John, respectively.

 

[D6130]

Whitby in North Yorkshire is also a noted centre for the smoking of Herring to make Kippers.

 

[Tetragon213]

Scarborough is another Yorkshire seaside resort town

 

[D6130]

Poet and novelist Anne Bronte - the younger sister of Emily and Charlotte - died in Scarborough and is buried in St Mary's churchyard. She was born at Thornton, near Bradford in West Yorkshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Thornton lies on the Bronte Way long-distance footpath: 43 miles long, running from Birstall, West Yorkshire; to Padiham, Lancashire: and routed via sundry places of significance concerning the history of the Brontes. One such traversed by the Way is Penistone Hill Country Park, near Haworth and also Oxenhope, West Yorkshire (not to be confused with the town of Penistone thirty-odd miles to the south-east; the two places' names have different derivations).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Birstall in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Morley Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

There is another Birstall, quite a way to the south: in Leicestershire, just north of Leicester and part of the Leicester Urban Area.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Potter Heigham in Norfolk also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

The Museum of the Broads -- which per Wiki, "covers all aspects of the Broads... landscape, industry, wildlife, people, holidays and boats" -- first opened in Potter Heigham in 1996; but in 1999 its venue was moved to Stalham, Norfolk, five miles to the north-west: where it has been in place since then.

 

[Tetragon213]

Haggardstown (County Lough, Ireland) is also home to a church dedicated to St Fursey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kilcloon in County Meath also has a church that is dedicated to St Oliver Plunkett.

 

[Calthrop]

Oh, my -- "wits' end", rather: I often find tiny places in Ireland, a problem. As of about a week ago: reduced to awful and childish puns -- again involving livestock, and "sound rather than spelling". A little way west of Kilcloon is a hamlet, or Irish equivalent, called Kittens Gap. An association of sorts -- concerning the young of domestic species, and geographical features -- could be found with Foleshill, West Midlands: just north of Coventry. (Sorry !)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Preston in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Thomas the Apostle.

 

[Calthrop]

Erskine, Renfrewshire, also has a namesake settlement in the US State of Minnesota.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Greenock in Inverclyde also lies on the line of the River Clyde.

 

[D6130]

Pioneering steam engineer James Watt was born in Greenock on 19th January 1736. He died at Handsworth, Birmingham on 25th August 1819.

 

[91130nut]

Toxteth has also been blighted by riots over the last forty-odd years

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aigburth in Merseyside also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael-in-the-Hamlet

 

[Calthrop]

Born in Aigburth, was General Sir Banastre Tarleton (1754 -- 1837): military officer and politician, best known as a distinguished fighter on the British side in the American War of Independence. He died in Leintwardine, Herefordshire.

 

[High Dyke]

The River Teme flows through the village of Leintwardine. It is joined by the River Clun. The source of the Clun is Anchor, Shropshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Anchor -- only yards from the Welsh border -- had until its recent closure: the highest pub in Shropshire, the Anchor (chicken / egg -- presumably, hamlet named after pub?). The highest pub in Wales is reckoned to be the Sportsman's Arms: on the road between Denbigh and Pentrefoelas, Conwy County Borough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glasfryn in Conwy County Borough also lies of the line of the River Merddwr.

 

[Calthrop]

Glasfryn in Conwy County Borough also lies of the line of the River Merddwr.

If someone were to write a whodunnit, set in these parts; would it be a Merddwr mystery? (I'll admit that I'd never make a living as a comedian.)

Very far to the south-east: Markyate, Hertfordshire -- between Dunstable and St. Albans -- also lies on the A5 trunk road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Richborough in Kent also lies on the route of the R oman road known as Watling Street.

 

[Calthrop]

With Richborough being a bit of a "ghost town" nowadays; its population is included with those of the civil parish of Ash, Kent -- a few miles to the south-west.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Elvington in Kent also lies on the line of the long-distance footpath known as the Miner's Way Trail.